Overview

Collection consists of letters, cards, and notes related to Melvin Landsberg's correspondence with and research on writer John Dos Passos, undertaken for his dissertation on and subsequent biography of Dos Passos, Dos Passos' Path to U.S.A.: A Political Biography, 1912-1936 (1972). The collection also includes correspondence with Dos Passos' friends and notes from interviews Landsberg conducted with Dos Passos' colleagues and friends.

Overview This collection contains manuscripts, correspondence, typescripts, proofs, interview notes and reference material, and other related research material from the career of Melvin Landsberg, professor of English at the University of Kansas. Most of the collection relates to Landberg's main research interest, John Dos Passos's works, and to the publishing of Landsberg's 1972 book Dos Passos’s Path to U.S.A.: A Political Biography, 1912-1936, as well as his...